What is enlightenment?
By: Samuel Fleischacker
Series: Kant's questions; Kant's questions
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780415486064; 9780415497817; 9780203070468
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Enlightenment; Philosophy; Rezeption; Philosophie; Aufklärung
Description: "The Enlightenment is one of the most important and contested periods in the history of philosophy. The problems it addressed, such as the proper extent of individual freedom and the challenging of tradition, resonate as much today as when they were first debated. Of all philosophers, it is arguably Kant who took such questions most seriously, addressing them above all in his celebrated short essay, An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: The official story; title: A different side of Kant; title: From Hamann to Burke; title: Hegel; title: From Strauss to Marx; title: Forerunners; title: Horkheimer/Adorno; Foucault; title: Difference critics; title: Foucault, Habermas, Rawls; title: Assessing Foucault, Habermas, and Rawls; title: In defense of Kantian enlightenment.